Eventually, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? was first published in 1923 under the pseudonym of ‘A Maratha’ (as prisoners were not allowed to publish any work), and immediately became a manual on Hindutva and Hindu nationalism. The book created a sensation and most importantly because Savarkar steered clear of the ‘chaos and confusion created by nearly fifty definitions of the word Hindu including the one made by Tilak.’24 His choice of words left no scope for any doubt: (You), who by race, by blood, by culture, by nationality possess almost all the essentials of Hindutva and had been forcibly
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